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Top 4 Ways to Grow Your Company with Fractional Experts

COO Alliance

Often, people can’t hire the most senior people they’d like to in all the roles they would like to have them. It’s expensive and a growing company can’t afford that, so they settle for subpar employees instead. The problem is, if you want your company to grow, you can’t settle. If you can’t find the best people to hire, or if you can’t afford to hire a complete, full-time, A-level team, there are other ways to get the job done.

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Two CEOs, No Drama: Ground Rules for Co-Leadership

INSEAD Knowledge

The co-CEO model can actually work. Here’s how.

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Agree on an Exit Plan During the Negotiation Phase

Peter Simoons

Tip 13: Agree on an Exit Plan during the Negotiation Phase. Many couples opt to draft a pre-nuptial agreement before they get married. While some people believe that signing a pre-nuptial agreement puts the couple on a mindset that their marriage will not last and eventually fail, the fact is that pre-nups do make sense. Pre-nups are exit plans.

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How Can You Get The Most Out of Your CoSelling Partnerships?

CoSell

We’re all looking to get the most out of our co-selling partnerships. To give you a head start, we interviewed 6 top sales leaders. Here, we’re sharing their insights and offering answers to frequently asked questions about how to super-charge your co-selling partnerships. These insights will give you a competitive edge about being human-centered. They shine light on the vital importance of being authentic, genuine, and focused on adding value.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Best Podcast Recording Software & Tools in 2021 (For Every Budget)

Jake Jorgovan

Recording great audio can involve a steep learning curve, but it´s possible to skip a lot of the trial-and-error by finding the right podcast recording software. We’ve analyzed the best that are available in 2021, to bring you a list of 19 tools for every budget, whether you’re a pro podcaster or just getting started as a broadcaster. Factors to consider when choosing podcast software Before making a choice around which is the best podcast recording software for your needs, there are four key co

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How Keyboard Shortcuts for Cut, Copy, and Paste Became Standards

ISTO / IEEE

Contributed by Bill Narin, Global Business Development, IEEE-ISTO. Hundreds of millions—perhaps billions—of users around the world have the keystrokes command/control x, c, and v encoded in their muscle memories to perform cut, copy and paste operations. How did this happen? The near universal adoption of today’s cut, copy and paste keyboard shortcuts is the result of a combination of breakthrough innovations and pragmatic computer design.

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The Most Important Tool Missing from Your Salesforce Toolbox

Impartner

You can do amazing things with Salesforce CRM and Salesforce Communities. But helping partners grow your brand and launch compelling marketing campaigns through partners isn’t one of them, says Robb Franks, Director of Sales Engineering at Impartner. Franks describes the capabilities and use cases for Through Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA), which should be a staple of every channel marketer’s toolbox.

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How Africa Could Astonish the World

INSEAD Knowledge

Already the most dynamic and youngest continent, Africa could be the world’s next growth miracle – with the right type of leadership.

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Nutanix Woos Managed Service Providers

Channel Insider

Managed service providers (MSP) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have been among the most sought-after channel partners. IT vendors of all sizes quickly realized that MSPs were suddenly exercising a lot more influence over what platforms were being relied on by their end customers to ensure applications remain accessible to employees, partners and end customers.

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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Zero Distance Award

Thinkers 50

In 2020 the Business Ecosystem Alliance (BEA) launched the Zero Distance Awards. The awards identify and celebrate the work of organizations throughout the world in eliminating the distance between their employees, their operations and their customers. The BEA believes that ecosystems are a dynamic means of bridging the gap between organizations and their customers.

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7 Traits of High-Performance Leadership In Turbulent Times

TRG Blog

It's easy to lead when things are going well. It's only when adversity strikes that great leaders shine. In this turbulent time, how can you step up your leadership game? Master these 7 leadership traits to better navigate the white water of the business-as-unusual post-COVID world.

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Disruptive Changes in Healthcare Aid the Efforts of Indian Doctors and Medical Staff

Frost & Sullivan

Globally, Doctor’s Day is celebrated on different dates to applaud the selfless service of the doctors and their role and responsibility in serving lives. In India, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) celebrates 1 st July – the birth and death anniversary of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy , as National Doctor’s Day. He was a renowned doctor, politician, and philanthropist from the state of West Bengal.

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Market Makers

Vantage Partners

Partner Marketplaces have become a popular route to growth and success, but 38% of respondents to a recent poll report they are skeptical and have yet to experience a partner marketplace that has generated value for their company. Diagnosing this gap, identifying the right customer engagement strategy and ensuring a tailored approach by sales representatives based on the structure of the marketplace and the specific products being sold is key to success.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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An Exploration of Blockchain-based Traceability in Food Supply Chains: On the Benefits of Distributed Digital Records from Farm to Fork

TIM Review

"Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.". Andy Kennedy Co-founder of FoodLogiQ. Introduction. In recent years, various food scandals have damaged consumer trust in the food industry across the world (Sarpong, 2014; Garaus & Treiblmaier, 2021). In 2011, China witnessed a massive pork mislabeling scandal along with food fraud, which led to recalling donkey meat products that included fox meat (Kamat

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Manage your Leads effectively throughout the Sales Cycle

Mindmatrix

Better lead management through automated lead scoring, lead nurturing, lead segmentation, and lead routing. End-to-end lead management capabilities. The Mindmatrix platform offers end-to-end effective lead management capabilities. . Flexibility in lead data capture. To begin with, the Mindmatrix platform offers default (static) lead information fields and you can further add custom lead information fields to capture as much lead data as you’d like.

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Global Micro-mobility Market to Thrive with Bike-sharing Set to Dominate by 2025

Frost & Sullivan

The micro-mobility market is expected to register 31.9 million vehicles by the end of 2025, finds Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. – July 1, 2021–Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis on the micro-mobility industry finds that, globally, it is set to become one of the most attractive forms of sustainable mobility thanks to its convenience, affordability and safety.

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5 Ways I Learned to be an LGBTQ+ Ally

Planview Blog

In recent years, allyship for those that identify as LGBTQ+ in the workplace has been a hot subject, but cultural progress is much more than a trending topic – it’s a growing movement. Allyship can help build other communities up, which helps advance equality for all. As Frances Wright, a historic social reformer, wisely said, “Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Winning With Organizational Design by Prof. Stéphane JG Girod

Thinkers 50

Research has demonstrated that competitive advantage in business today erodes faster than in the past. Evaluating this evolution, many studies have advised companies on how to focus on intrapreneurship and new ways of innovating to invent their next S-curve. In these discussions, the role that organizational design plays to reinvent competitive advantage, both as a means and a source of competitive advantage itself, is overlooked.

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Complimentary access! SiriusDecisions Channel Marketing Strategies Research Brief: Filling The Gaps In Partner Demand

Mindmatrix

As C-level executives look to leverage shared services as a means of cost-cutting, third-party channels often fall into the crosshairs. Channel leaders must find new ways to develop and deliver programs through the channel or risk losing critical resources. The demand center concept will likely be a key method of doing so, as b-to-b suppliers can increase efficiency while lowering operating costs.

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Frost & Sullivan Outlines Five Key Growth Opportunities in the Middle East ICT Market

Frost & Sullivan

With rising demand for technologies, including AI, machine learning, and IoT, the Middle East ICT market is expected to reach $95.05 billion by 2025. Santa Clara, Calif. –June 28, 2021–With the emphasis on reducing dependency on the oil industry, several Middle Eastern countries are formulating strategies to boost the contribution of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) market to the gross domestic product (GDP).

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Move Your Accounting to the True Cloud with SunSystems 7 SaaS

TRG Blog

There is cloud, and there is true cloud. Despite the fact that cloud computing has been around for decades, many so-called cloud enterprise applications were not built for the cloud from the start. So what should businesses expect from genuine cloud solutions? A quick glance at Infor SunSystems 7 will give you the answer.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Rethink & Renew Your Employee Years of Service Award Program

ITA Group

Rethink & Renew Your Employee Years of Service Award Program. An employee years of service award program not only motivates employees to remain loyal to their organization, but also reflects positively on the company for retaining them. But, chances are your service anniversary program is not realizing its full potential. What Is a Years of Service Award?

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Measure your Sales and Marketing efforts—effortlessly!

Mindmatrix

Mindmatrix lets you measure every KPI related to your marketing and sales campaigns across various channels. By having all the key metrics tracked accurately, you will be able to determine which marketing campaigns were effective and which ones didn’t yield the intended results. Here’s a quick overview of the marketing campaign performance metrics tracked by our reporting and analytics functionality. .

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End Verticals’ Focus on Zero-defect Manufacturing Inflates Demand for Global Material Test Equipment Market

Frost & Sullivan

Efforts to enhance fuel efficiency and reduce emissions in the automotive and aerospace industries are expected to drive the demand for material testing, Says Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. –June 28, 2021–Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the global material test equipment market finds that end verticals’—automotive, aerospace, primary metals, and plastics—emphasis on zero-defect manufacturing is inflating the demand for material test equipment, assuring high-quality products

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How Online Product Reviews Affect Market Share

INSEAD Knowledge

To find out how user-generated content affects your bottom line, you need a fine-tuned strategy for data analysis.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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OKR Examples (& How To Track Them)

ClearPoint Strategy

Objectives & Key Results, or the OKR framework, may have catapulted to fame thanks to its association with certain legendary tech companies, but it has remained a popular strategy management methodology because it actually works. Not only is the OKR framework an excellent way for all types of organizations—both profit and nonprofit—to stay focused on achieving their goals, but it also offers a way to align the activities of individuals and teams so that everyone is working in tandem.

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Fill the gap from Lead-to-Revenue with Mindmatrix’s Lead Nurturing and Sales Prospecting Capabilities

Mindmatrix

Engage in smart lead nurturing and sales prospecting programs via SMS and emails with Mindmatrix. Did you know that about 80% of the leads you drop do eventually make a purchase? These results clearly indicate you must adopt different tactics towards this 80%! . You know that in order to influence buying decisions in your favor, you need to be in constant touch with your leads.

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Could Now Be the Best Time to Target Key Opportunities across the US Transportation Market Spectrum?

Frost & Sullivan

The political landscape is reflecting market ambition. The significant developments across the political landscape, although not fine-tuned into detailed policies, happen to coincide with a market dynamic that is also shifting significantly. On behalf of the British Embassy in Washington, Frost & Sullivan has been engaged in delivering a comprehensive project to understand the detailed landscape for opportunities in the transportation sector in the United States, with a focus on adoption of